CONTENTS
1. Introduction: Reclaiming Small Town Marie-Helene Zerah and Eric Denis 1
Part I Placing Small Towns: Dynamics of Urbanisation and Systems of Cities
2. Unacknowledged Urbanisation: The New Census
Towns in India 39
Kanhu Charan Pradhan
3. The Substantial Share of Small Towns in India's System of Cities 67
Elfie Swerts
4. Income Ranking of Indian States and Their Pattern of Urbanisation 91
Basudeb Chaudhuri, Boishampayan Chatterjee, Mainak Mazumdar and Safayet Karim
5. Urbanisation in a Decade of Near Jobless Growth 119
S. Chandrasekhar
6. Comparison of Peripheral Metropolitanisation in Haryana and Rajasthan, India 141
Milap Punia, Rajnish Kumar, Laxman Singh and Sandeep Kaushik
7. On Global and Multiple Linkages in the Making of an Ordinary Place:Parangipettai-Porto Novo 167
Eric Denis and Zarin Ahmad
Part II Land, Society, Belonging
8. Multilayered Urbanisation of the South Canara TerritorY 199
Solomon Benjamin
9. Practices of Territory in Small and Medium Cities of South India 235
Bhuvaneswari Raman
10. Territorial Legends: Politics of Indigeneity, Migration and Urban Citizenship in Pasighat 261
Mythri Prasad- Aleyamma
11. Wealth, Mobility, Accretive Citizenship and Belonging:
Why Everyone Comes to Kullu and How they Remain 283
Diya Mehra
12. Hindu Temples and Development of Localities in Tamil Nadu (South India) 311
Pierre-Yves Trouillet
Part III Small Towns Between Rural and Urban Administration: Public Policies, Governance and Urban Services
13. The Other Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal
Mission: What Does It Mean for Small Town India? 337
Sama Khan
14. Shedding Light on Social and Economic Changes in Small Towns Through the Prism of Local Governance: A Case Study of Haryana 371
Marie-Helene Zerah
15. Purdah and Politics: Women's Participation in Local Governance 397
Aditi Surie and Marie-Helene Zerah
16. New Urban Territories in West Bengal: Transition,
Transformation and Governance 421
Gopa Samanta
17. Does Administrative Status Matter for Small Towns in India? 443
Partha Mukhopadhyay
Part IV Producing and Innovating in Non-metropolitan Contexts
18. Development on the Urban Fringe: The Prosperity of Kartarpur, a Small Town-Cluster in" Punjab 473
Remi de Bercegol and Shankare GowdE
19. From Ox-Carts to Borewell Rigs: Maintenance, Manufacture and Innovation in Tiruchengode 497
Yann Philippe Tastevin
20. Globalisation, Productive Spaces and Small Town Transformation : The Case of Machlipatnam and Pedana in Coastal Andra Pradesh 527
N. Sridharan
21. Mapping Small Towns' Productive and Employment Configurations 553
Elfie Swerts and Eric Denis
22. Commuting Workers and the Integration of the Rural-Urban Economy 577
Ajay Sharma
23. Non-timber Forest Products and Small Town EconomieS 601
Manoj Nadkarni